Press Conference and Rally Postponed, For Now
“Even the Hilton doesn’t want QTS”
Haymarket, Virginia (May 2, 2023) – Apparently the Hilton in the Town of Haymarket doesn’t want QTS either, and thus informed them they were unwanted. The community recognizes QTS is employing typical developer tactics: wear down citizens, take us away from our families and our regular lives, all in hopes that we will give up.
Hundreds of citizens were ready to turn out today to protect our homes, our history, our natural resources, and the reliability of our electrical grid. QTS is not welcome here. No matter when they plan to reschedule – we will show up.
We reject their bullying tactics, their obfuscation of the truth. They are not an ‘ally’ as QTS CEO, Chad Williams, proclaims. Even County staff has recognized the QTS application as being woefully absent of critical information, like a cultural resource report, and basic information like where the buildings will be located on the site plan.
We believe these facts are missing because knowing the truth will prove this monstrosity does not belong and will be highly impactful in our areas which include critical resources. But the biggest question is HOW will Dominion Energy meet the power demand of what we calculate can be upwards of 8.6 gigawatts? We know who pays for that infrastructure – citizens. Virginia will not, cannot meet our clean Virginia goals if we ignore the impacts of this Data Center proliferation everywhere and anywhere.
By comparison, Lake Anna has two reactors, North and South. Together the reactors generate nearly 1.89 gigawatts of power, which is distributed mainly to the greater Richmond area and to Northern Virginia.
https://www.eia.gov/nuclear/reactors/reactorcapacity.php
Citizens WILL NOT STOP protecting our community, our county, and our state.